“Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” star Jen Shah has requested to be placed at FPC Bryan, a minimum security federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas, to serve her 6½-year sentence for wire fraud.
Shah, 49, is represented by lawyer Priya Chaudhry of Chaudhry Law PLLC who filed a request to ask a judge to “recommend that Ms. Shah be incarcerated at the FPC Bryan facility in Bryan, Texas,” according to People magazine.
The prison takes in female offenders and currently holds 544 inmates, per its website. It is also where Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes was sentenced to serve her 11-year prison term that begins in April, according to People magazine.
Shah and her assistant Stuart Smith created and sold lead lists, names and contacts of potential clients for members of their scheme to scam, Audrey Strauss, the former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, previously said in a news release.
At least 10 victims are known, and they were all reportedly over the age of 55, according to the news release.
Shah was convicted Friday of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with telemarketing, according to NPR.
“With today’s sentence, Jennifer Shah finally faces the consequences of the many years she spent targeting vulnerable, elderly victims,” Damian Williams, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, said in a statement. “These individuals were lured in by false promises of financial security, but in reality, Shah and her co-conspirators defrauded them out of their savings and left them with nothing to show for it.”
After previously pleading not guilty, Shah changed her plea to guilty on July 11, 2022.
According to the news releaseShah and Smith were both charged on March 30, 2021, with conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with telemarketing and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
The two had been involved in the scheme since 2012, federal prosecutors said.
The conspiracy to commit wire fraud charge has a maximum sentence of 30 years and the money laundering charge would have brought an additional 20 years, according to the news release.
Shah originally pleaded not guilty on both charges during a court hearing on April 2, 2021.
But as part of a plea deal, when she pleaded guilty to the fraud charges, the second charge for money laundering was dropped, according to People magazine.
She then faced 14 years of prison time if convicted.
Shah must turn herself in to the Federal Bureau of Prisons on Feb. 17 to start her sentence, according to People magazine.
